Najat El Hachmi wins the Nadal award

Najat El Hachmi wins the Nadal award

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Xavi Ayén

Catalan Najat El Hachmi (Nador, Morocco, 1979) has won the Nadal novel prize, endowed with 18,000 euros, for 'On Monday they will love us', a novel testimonial about the price of freedom for some girls who They live in an oppressive environment, in a neighborhood on the outskirts of Barcelona.

Najat El Hachmi wins Nadal award

The verdict was announced in a sober ceremony at the Palace hotel in Barcelona, ​​throughout the afternoon, only for journalists, since the health emergency caused by Covid-19 has forced the suspension of the traditional gala this year with a dinner in which the Nadal and Josep Pla awards are announced.

As the author herself explained, "there are two leading women, from Muslim families, who have to grow up on the periphery of the periphery, in a neighborhood that conditions their lives, they have everything against them to be able to conquer freedom, conditions of origin, sex and social class. I tell all those women who, in the 21st century, continue to live in circumstances where freedom is far away, that It is possible that there is no dignified life without freedom. I dedicate the novel to the brave women who strayed from the right path to be free."

I dedicate the novel to the brave women who strayed from the straight path to be free"

El Hachmi, an outstanding voice in Catalan literature, has a degree in Arabic Philology from the UB and is known for all from the autobiographical essay 'Jo també soc catalana' (2004) His novel debut was 'L'últim patriarca' (2008), which won the Ramon Llull prize and was the first installment of a family trilogy continued in ' La filla estrangera' (2015) and 'Mare de llet i mel' (2018). He has also written the novel 'La caçadora de cossos' (2011). His latest book, so far, was the essay Semper han parlat per nosaltres , a reflection on feminism and identity against the background of her Moroccan origins and Muslim culture.All her work is published in Catalan and Spanish, and has titles translated into ten different languages, including French.

This year's jury was made up of Alicia Giménez Bartlett, Care Santos, Lorenzo Silva, Andrés Trapiello and Emili Rosales.

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